Placenta

come. Also what is interesting is the fact that even after the baby is born, the birthing process is not over. As, the woman must deliver the placenta if she is giving brith vaginally. She will continue to have mild contractions, till the placenta has come out. I though it was insightful that despite the mother having mild contractions to deliver the placenta, she can hold and bond with the baby.As her bundle of joy, will take her mind of the pain. "Natural Childbirth"-What was interesting about

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication characterized by the development of hypertension and proteinuria in the second half of pregnancy. There is currently no definitive cause, however, it is thought to result from disturbed development of the placenta, leading to endothelial dysfunction and systemic inflammation. Syncytiotrophoblast extracellular vesicles (STBEVs) are produced when the syncytial placental surface is shed into the maternal circulation. We hypothesized that this would cause vascular

important to know what happened to the blood insulin level and the level of Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) in human blood steam. Lastly this paper will investigate the role of the Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and its effect on the malaria placenta and the fetal development Body I. Malaria life cycle The main cause of Malaria is Plasmodium falciparum or plasmodium vivax, which is carry by the female Anopheles mosquito. As the female Anopheles mosquito bits on the human to take blood meal

baby and in turn the baby does not get enough oxygen, in the mother it can cause liver, kidney and brain damage. All of these problems seem to be caused by the placenta not properly forming the normal network of blood vessels deep inside the uterus. Which leads to poor blood flow to the placenta. The placenta is what

Stem Cell Research Paper Stem cell research has been quite a controversial topic since its origin in the 1960s by Gopal Das and Joseph Altman. Of course, anything that uses a human embryo would be. Stem cell research could open a vast number of new doors for modern science, it could let us test new drugs, one of which could be the unfound cure for AIDS or Alzheimer’s disease. However, this branch of science comes at a high price, the price of a human life that is only five to six days old (NIH)

Clearinghouse (NDIC), (n.d.), scientists believes GDM is caused by hormonal changes and metabolic demands of pregnancy. The placenta produces hormones such as, cortisol, human placental lactogen, and estrogen to maintain the pregnancy (The University of Chicago Medicine, n.d.). The hormone production by the placenta increases as the fetus grows. The hormones produced by the placenta blocks the effect of insulin, which leads to the body’s resistance to insulin.

forms embryonic membranes (yolk sac, amnion, chorion and allantois), which help to protect the embryo. The placenta begins to develop (from embryos chorion and a part of mother’s endometrium), which will transfer nutrients and oxygen from the mother to the baby, and waste products from the baby, will produce and secrete hormones, and it will be in charge of immunologic barrier. The placenta is connected to the foetus by the umbilical cord. Backbone, vertebral, the central nervous system, and small

Effect of Early Skin-to-Skin Contact between mother and newborn post delivery on the duration of third stage, initiation of breastfeeding and mother satisfaction. Afaf Mohamed Mohamed Emam1 & Eman Mohamed Abd Elhakm2 1,2Lecturer of Obstetric & Women 's Health Nursing, Faculty of nursing, Benha University, Egypt. I. Introduction: In people, routine mother-infant partition not long after birth is extraordinary to the twentieth century. This practice wanders from transformative history, where

and culture. In the Lee’s case, it all ties back to the birth of the Lia. When Lia was born her placenta was incinerated, among with the placenta’s of all the other Hmong births at the Merced Community Medical Center. The doctors thought that the Hmong women wanted to eat the placentas, and were disgusted by the idea so decided, on behalf of their expert medical rationale, to incinerate the placentas. In their beliefs, this may have caused their daughter Lia to become ill, since her soul had no where

inside of the placenta, which is inside of the mothers’ uterus. “The placenta has been described as a pancake-shaped organ that attaches to the inside of the uterus and is connected to the fetus by the umbilical cord.” As the placenta produces the hormones for the baby, it also supplies the blood to the fetus from the mother. The most important element that allows the fetus to grow is the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord is composed of three blood vessels that attach to the placenta and the fetus